Performers Needed for "A Raisin in the Sun" Show

The wife of Walter and Travis’s mother. Ruth takes care of the Younger household. Her marriage has problems. She is about 30. But her weariness makes her older. Constantly fighting poverty and domestic troubles have aged her. However, she continues to be strong. Her almost pessimistic pragmatism helps her to survive

The protagonist of the play. He wants to be rich and devises a way to acquire wealth with his friends, particularly Willy Harris. He has a strong, powerful presence in his household. He displays a dominance behavior with the women in his life. But none of the women will tolerate his behavior. He spends much of the play endless preoccupied with discovering a quick solution to his family’s various problems..to invent his father’s insurance in a liquor store

She is Mama’s daughter and Walter’s sister. She is an intellectual. She attends college. She dreams of being a doctor and distances herself from the conservative views of her mother.

She is the mother of Walter and Beneatha. The matriarch of the family. Mama is a Christian, moral and maternal. She argues against her son’s plan. She believes that the product of a liquor store will further poison the community and stain the memory of her beloved husband Walter Lee Younger, Sr.

A Nigerian college student in love with Beneatha. He is very proud of his African heritage, and Beneatha hopes to learn about her African heritage from him. He eventually proposes marriage to her and hopes she will return to Nigeria with him.

A wealthy young college student who courts Beneatha. The Youngers approve of George, but Beneatha dislikes his willingness to submit to white culture and he has forgotten his African heritage. He challenges the thoughts and feelings of other Black people through his arrogance and flair to intellectual competition

The only white character in the play. He arrives at the Younger apartment from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. He offers them a deal to reconsider moving into his all-white neighborhood

One of Walter’s partners in the liquor store plan. He appears to be mentally slow as his name indicates.

No specific ages; At the end of the play, the two men move packed boxes out the apartment and load them on the truck.